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The Ancestry website has a flexible (personalised) front page, where you can arrange or hide various modules showing particular information. I have chosen to have ‘Recent Member Connect Activity’ as the the top left box, which I find a bit addictive. It highlights activity by other Ancestry members connected with records which are on your own tree (or the ‘shoebox’ save-for-later area). There’s something new every week, often most days, usually just showing you who else has some vague interest in a particular person in the tree, saving a census or birth record say, as its easy to do. » Continue reading “In praise of .. Ancestry’s Member Connect Activity feature”

So the ‘major scanning exercise’ is done, with about 100 old family photos digitally processed. Not quite as good quality as I hoped as Dad’s HP all-in-one scanner didn’t want to budge from 200 dpi but should be adequate.

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Cutlock and Co brings together family history data and stories – the ‘Howes Watkins Neal Scott’ tree. Key places include Norfolk, south Somerset, Rhondda, Neath, Manitoba and Nebraska. Find these and other areas of interest from the “nav menu” above the banner picture – on smaller devices, click the top ‘hamburger’ icon.